Euro 2012: Germany 2-1 Netherlands
There are some football matches which transcend mere rivalry and tap into something more deep-seated, as if they tickle a synapse that we may even think that we have evolved...
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Euro 2012: Denmark 1-0 Netherlands
Luck, we could posit, is more complex than simply being a matter of black and white. Whilst the Netherlands have a right to feel a little aggrieved that a couple...
Euro Moments: The Netherlands
This mornings cartoon for the run-up to the European Championships from Dotmund features the Netherlands. Don’t forget, you can see plenty more Dotmund artwork here, and you can read his...
Euro 2012 – The Runners & Riders: The Netherlands
With the benefit of hindsight, there seems something inevitable about the crowning of Spain as the world champions in South Africa two years ago. Yet the Netherlands came within minutes...
European Championship Stories: 1988 – Revenge Is A Dish Best Served Cold
There can be few things more tiresome in international football than war analogies. Sometimes, however, they are inescapable and this can be no more true than in the case of...
The 2010 World Cup Final: Netherlands 0-1 Spain
It’s a curious sight. The BBC’s panel is sitting, for the first time in this tournament suited and booted, in its base studio outside the Green Point Stadium in Cape...
The Beautiful War – Rinus Michels & The Reinvention Of Dutch Football
One of the more surprising requirements made of the Dutch team playing in this week’s World Cup final is that it is not enough for them merely to win the...
World Cup 2010: Uruguay I-Spy
Our resident pencil wrangler Dotmund was very excited about the prospect of Uruguay playing the Netherlands. However, we at Twohundredpercent have noticed that some of his match reports during...
World Cup 2010: Uruguay 2-3 Netherlands
At times they looked like making heavy weather of it, particularly in the last couple of minutes of stoppage time. Indeed, for the first twenty minutes of the second half...
Brazil Undone By Dutch Pragmatism
Never meet your heroes, they say. It is possible that a lot of people met theirs yesterday in the form of the 2010 version of the Brazilian national football team....
World Cup 2010: Netherlands 2-1 Brazil
Into the quarter-finals then, and now it starts getting serious.This was the first clash between two teams with serious winning credentials - or at least, Brazil's pedigree was beyond dispute....
World Cup 2010: Netherlands 2-1 Slovakia
FIFA have changed the stage at which they will discount previous bookings, from the final group game, to the end of the quarter final. On the face of it, it’s...
World Cup 2010: Cameroon 1-2 Netherlands
The entertainment and excitement is due to be elsewhere this evening. The Netherlands against Cameroon sounds, at a distance, as if it should be a match of colour and flair,...
World Cup 2010: Netherlands 1-0 Japan
Patrick Viera’s role on ITV’s panel is increasingly to give reassurance to the others that France are worse than England, which should be money for old rope but, after the...
World Cup 2010: Netherlands 2-0 Denmark
Half way through the opening set of fixtures then, and we've already seen two of the semi-finalists in action. Only Germany have really looked good enough to be worthy of...
World Cup Tales: Reflections Upon England In Italy, 1990
The concept of England having a high level of expectation at the time of a World Cup finals is a comparatively recent one. As recently as 1990, most adults could...
World Cup Tales: When The World Cup Legitimised A Dictatorship – Argentina, 1978
There have been, over the last eighty years or so, several questionable decisions made regarding the hosting of World Cup tournaments. None, however, have been met with quite the fury...
Video Of The Week: Argentina vs Netherlands – The 1978 World Cup Final
This week’s Video Of The Week is a little late due to other commitments, but it is an absolute belter – the 1978 World Cup final between Argentina and the...
World Cup Preview: Group E
With the 2010 FIFA World Cup now just four weeks away, you should by now be able to visualise those wretched pull-out "Come On England" St. George's flags which come...
The World Cup Of National Anthems (Part Three)
For many people, major sports tournaments are the only occasion that national anthems are heard. These peculiar tunes have become a genre of their own, transcending the mere hymns that...